Morning Must Reads: Momentum

–Unemployment falls to 8.8% in March, a two-year low, as non-farm payrolls swell by 216,000. It’s a good sign of momentum, but obviously the bar for happy news is pretty low. A return to normal employment levels will take a very long time at this rate.

–Tim Pawlenty lays out a few names he’d like to see get the vice presidential nomination in ’12: Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, John Kasich, Brian Sandoval, Susana Martinez. All are rising talents in the party, four of the five are governors and three of them (Rubio, Sandoval and Martinez) are Hispanic.